Ming China, 1368-1644 [electronic resource] : a concise history of a resilient empire / John W. Dardess.
2012
DS753 .D37 2012eb
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Title
Ming China, 1368-1644 [electronic resource] : a concise history of a resilient empire / John W. Dardess.
Author
Dardess, John W., 1937-
ISBN
9781442204928 electronic bk
9781442204911 (pbk.)
9781442204904
9781442204911 (pbk.)
9781442204904
Publication Details
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 155 p.) : maps.
Call Number
DS753 .D37 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
951/.026
Summary
This book provides the first concise history of one of China's most important eras. The author offers a thematically organized political, social, and economic exploration of China from 1368 to 1644. He examines how the Ming dynasty was able to endure for 276 years, illuminating Ming foreign relations and border control, the lives and careers of its sixteen emperors, its system of governance and the kinds of people who served it, its great class of literati, and finally the mass outlawry that, in unhappy conjunction with the Manchu invasions from outside, ended the once-mighty dynasty in the mid-seventeenth century. The Ming dynasty witnessed the beginning of China's contact with the West,.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Critical issues in world and international history.
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Ming China, 1368-1644.
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Table of Contents
The Ming emperors: names and dates
Frontiers
Emperors
Governance
Literati
Outlaws.
Frontiers
Emperors
Governance
Literati
Outlaws.